Mohave County miner., 1887-11-19
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.

The Bank Of Prescott has gone out o
business.
Sumner Howard and Harris Baldwin
have formed law partnership.
Lum Gray, Of Phoenix, has received th.
appointment Of Colonel OF Militia from
Governor Zulick.
1t appears that the Aver Lumber Com
pany will no longer nonopolise the lum
Der business O; Northern arizona, az tht
Champion announces that the machin
cry for the new mill TO be erected By
the Grecnlaw brothers, near the Locket
ranch, arrived in Flagstaff this week. 1
Ia now and complete outfit throughout
being a lumber and shingle mill com
bined.
s. p. Merritt has assumed charge o
the Phenix Gazette. The paper IL still
to be Democratic, but will devote its at
tention to the building up Of ths Sal
River valley.
Phenix receives aonr by the ca, loat
from Kansas City.
The Normal School at Tempe Ia said Il
he in a very fourishipg condition. Tht
number in attendance is not large, bu'
the character Of tho school and Of the In
striction is constantly improving.
Hay is worth $50 per ton In Tuson.
The Maricopa Immigration Union hal
at length completed arrangements BY
which its folders and pamphlets will b
distributed on all west-bound trains a
Holbrook, on the Atlantic q Pacific road
and at FL Paso, on the Southern Pacif.
road.
The Casa Grande improvement Com
pany 10 raising means to sink . number
Of wells near the railroad, from which
water will be taken TO irrigate . tract o.
land. 1t will be hoisted by means o.
windmills into large reservoir, from
which bitches will he run 70 the land ts
be reclaimed.
The Tombstone Daily Prospsctor is the
only daily published In that camp. Ths
Epitaph ceased TO bs q daily under its
present management. #.E
Nogales has q new daily paper called
the Reserve.
Maricopa county boasts Of having
brown-stone quarriss; Yuma county ha,
hills Of the finest marble.
A petition to Congress will be sent from
his Territory asking for an Appropriation
N t25, 600 TO improve the Colorado River
At Prescott the jury in the case o.
Martin Duran, charged with the murder
II q Mexican girl at Flagstaff, returned a
verdict Of murder in the first degree
without affixing any penalty.
A new Democratic paper will be started
at flagstaff soon by J. G. vining.
Hon. Thomas Gates continues to grow
stronger. and will probably be ont in q
couple Of weeks.
sevsnty.two mining locations we're 70
corded in the County Recorders Office In
Graham county during the month ol
October.
At Prescott last week in tho case OF A.
Mcdonald against the Atlantic d Pacific
Railway Company for malicious prose.
cution. the jury returned verdict for
s23, 600 damages for plaintiff. Mcdonald
was arrested at Holbrook on . charge oi
stealing coal from the railroad company.
For lack Of proof the charge was dis.
missed. He entered suit against the com.
psny - above stated. The css> will be
appealed.
Florence people have put up tho money
TO have printed 1900 folders descriptive
Of the very excellent region Of country
about that town. A little push Of that
sort tells In the long run.
Eskiminzin 10 now on the reservation
and has declared his intention TO remain
there. He has located ranch on the
Gila, within about twelve miles Of Camp
Thomas. Eskiminsin says hs has bsen
charged with theft for which he IL in no
way responsible. Last summer while
Agency Indians were camping At Coyote
Holes . party Of them, he says, went
down TO the San Pedro ard they are the
Indians who stole five head Of horses
from Shields. The trouble between white
settlers and bis Indians, he alleges, grew
out Of this theft, and they were wrongly
accused.